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Retired IT person, degrees in academic religion, and a small animal massage practitioner. Always left.
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RFK Jr. fired all of the experts at CDC's vaccine advisory committee. He installed 8 unvetted people, including anti-vaxxers who should have ZERO role in deciding which vaccines insurance should cover. The committee's next meeting must be postponed.

This is being sent out to every US embassy in the world.

🫤 #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

Difficult to overstate how much blood RFK and Trump will have on their hands in the coming years. Difficult to overstate how many innocent kids will die as a result of the people who cast votes for Trump last November.

What badass investigative reporter is going undercover with one of these ICE goon squads? This is, like, THE story right now. Who trains? What rules of engagement? What propaganda do they consume? How do they recruit, and weed out non-sadists? Would they follow orders to shoot regime enemies?

Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance

Boyle: For every American household that makes under $55,000 a year, they will be poorer as a result of this bill. So it's quite clear under this Republican betrayal— the poor get poorer, the rich get richer, and the middle class falling further behind. This is wrong.

Translation: We’re gonna make shit up, blast it out fast, and by the time the press catches on, it won’t matter. The lie will be everywhere, swallowed and weaponized by the right, locked in before the truth even gets a chance.

“[A] current DOJ official…defended the collection and retention of migrant [child] DNA. Storing raw samples, they say, is necessary for due process... “If you aren’t committing a crime, being in this database isn’t going to affect you.” You first, Göring.

OMG LEAVE US THE FUCK ALONE!!!!! We keep rejecting this framing!!! We are 2% of the US population and 12% of the NYC population. We don’t ever agree on anything that’s our whole deal! Why is this the top article on NYT right now???

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

You don't "not recall" telling DOJ lawyers to say "fuck you" to court orders. You either remember saying it, or you remember that you definitely didn't say it. Emil Bove saying he doesn't recall means he definitely said it, and there's a roomful of people that can testify to it.

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SEATTLE WEDNESDAY FEDERAL BUILDING ACTION

Phang: If you were scrolling on social media and saw a dog locked up in the middle of the Everglades—in the sun, in the heat, in the humidity—the outrage would be wild, wouldn’t it? But then—we’re okay with human beings being treated like that?

Emil Bove asked by Pete Welch who won the 2020 election. Bove says Biden "was certified" by Congress as the winner. Welch asked why Bove won't just say Biden won the most votes; Bove said that that characterization is "political" and that he can't weigh in on the subject

The idea that carrying a meme on your phone could factor into your treatment at the border is a sign of how authoritarian things have gotten, here. And the fact that the image is not a threat, makes it all the more chilling. People used to joke that autocracies fear humor and now it’s true.👇

A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa. It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;) It's so New York.

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

We need to start pushing back—legally If they’re masked, unmarked, and flashing Amazon gear, report it for what it is: an attempted kidnapping by law enforcement impersonators. 🎥 Record. 📍 Share location. 📞 Call the police. “ICE vest” is not an ID.

Hot take: people should be able to call the police to verify if they think they’re being kidnapped by men in masks who won’t identify themselves in unmarked cars without it being a “resisting” crime

Update

🚨 LA: “Fake ICE agents targeting the schools” It was only a matter of time. How is anyone supposed to tell the difference? And now @MarshaBlackburn Jack Johnson & Speaker Sexton are codifying masked Secret Police vigilantes into law?

BANNON: “The Netanyahu government is out of control… we still don’t know why the attack was necessary… Netanyahu told Trump bald-faced lies… I’ve never seen the president so angry…”

AOC from the top rope 🔥….grandpa is gonna love that last part

OPINION: "In my view, dispatching California National Guard troops against civilian protesters in Los Angeles chillingly echoes decisions and actions that led to the tragic Kent State shooting," Brian VanDeMark.

So rude to drop bombs, says guy who just illegally dropped massive bombs because Fox News told him to.

Less than 24 hours after posting “why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??” his comments this morning saying no to regime change get an AP bulletin that the president “affirms he isn't looking for regime change”:

I can’t speak for every city, but here in LA, ICE bounty hunters aren’t going after gang members. They’re hunting the vulnerable: gardeners, street vendors, day laborers. Easy money, no risk. Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.

Well, gosh, whoda thunk

Jeffries: "Not a scintilla of evidence to date has been presented that I have seen to justify the notion that there was an imminent threat to the United States of America. If the administration has evidence to the contrary, come up to present it."

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The president launched strikes without congressional approval, transparency, or accountability. It’s a reckless overreach, and the American people did not vote for another endless war.

“Right now in McAllen and other parts of this country we’re seeing what authoritarianism is about in its ugliest way.” New today: Despite a rainstorm, people packed into the 1,800 person auditorium to hear @sanders.senate.gov and @gregcasar.bsky.social offer an alternative to oligarchy.

Susan Collins comes out belatedly for preemptive war against a country with a population of 91 million people that she admits poses no immediate threat and that our best intelligence suggests is nowhere near having nukes (which Collins also admits between the lines here). Vote her out. #MEPolitics

We are in the hands of a mentally unstable nut who is now threatening Russia with nuclear retaliation based on the midnight ramblings of a drunken fool in Russia.

Damn right!!!

Confirmation they did not destroy the uranium stockpiles. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

Enact the 25th Amendment Now, remove Trump from Office. America will not be ruled by a Dictator, which he has been trying to be. Now starting a War without Congress approval. He has made our American servicemen Targets by his war action.

This is the kind of excessive force case DOJ routinely prosecutes. They should open an investigation here, based on the misconduct not the victims status.

Meanwhile, the federal government of the United States of America is hard at work hunting down and arresting random beloved local bagel shop managers. Neighbors and friends respond: pix11.com/news/local-n...